Setting Reference FreeSetting Reference FreeReference services for the mobile age

Andrew Walsh, Reference Renaissance 2010: Inventing the Future. August 8th-10th, 2010.

Turn on your mobile phones...Turn on your mobile phones...

Where IWhere I’’m from...m from...

Back to mobilesBack to mobiles

Text messaging (SMS)Text messaging (SMS)

First Challenge!First Challenge!

� If you don’t accept SMS to your reference service, start doing so now!

Join in with the social networksJoin in with the social networks

Quick & dirty broadcasting?Quick & dirty broadcasting?

QR CodesQR Codes

Mobiles know where they are...Mobiles know where they are...

Getting competitive?Getting competitive?

Augmenting realityAugmenting reality

Second Challenge!Second Challenge!

� Be radical. Think how AR could change your reference service and do something about it now.

Information (mobile?) LiteracyInformation (mobile?) Literacy

� Colorado Standards for Information Literacy

� OR:

From: Edwards, S. (2009) Panning for gold: Information Literacy and the net lenses model. Auslib Press: Adelaide.

Mobile is different...Mobile is different...

Last challenge!Last challenge!

Go from “NO mobiles allowed” to “Please switch to silent”.

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Thanks for listeningThanks for listening

� Slides are at http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/8235/

� More stuff at http://bit.ly/lilacAW

� I’m at a.p.walsh@hud.ac.uk or @andywalsh999 on Twitter